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Before The
POSTAL RATE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20268-0001
Docket No. R2000-1
Postal Rate and Fee Changes
RESPONSE OF THE UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE
WITNESS ROBINSON TO INTERROGATORIES OF
DOUGLAS F. CARLSON
(DFCAJSPS-T34-l-3)
The United States Postal Service hereby provides the response of witness
Robinson to the following interrogatories of Douglas F. Carlson: DFC/USPST34-l-3, filed on January 24,200O.
Each interrogatory is stated verbatim and is followed by the response.
Respectfully submitted,
UNITED STATES POSTAL
SERVICE
By its attorneys:
Daniel J. Foucheaux, Jr.
Chief Counsel, Ratemaking
M%c;n,
Richard T Cooper ”
475 CEnfant Plaza West, S.W.
(202) 268-2993; Fax: -5402
Washington, D.C. 20260-l 137
February 7,200O
RESPONSE OF UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE WITNESS ROBINSON
TO INTERROGATORIES OF DOUGLAS F. CARLSON
DFCIUSPS-T34-1. Please provide the location (including the exact city in which the
facility is located) of each of the 10 Priority Mail Processing Centers and all the threedigit ZIP Codes that each PMPC serves.
RESPONSE:
PMPC
$ocation
FIP Codes Sewed
Miami PMPC
Miami, FL 33172-2308
330,331-332340,333,
334,349
Jacksonville PMPC
Jacksonville, FL 32219-3239
299,313-314,315.318,
320,322,321,323,324,
328,344
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Orlando PMPC
Orlando, FL 32824-7952
327,328-329,347,335338,348.337,338,339,
341,342
Northern New Jersey
PMPC
Keamy, NJ 070324308
08&089,00102,070-073,
074-075.078.077,087,
078-079,085-088,088089.105108,109.124,
125127
Springfield PMPC
Springfield, MA 01104-3208
010-011,013,012,080081) 082,083,084-085.
088.087,120-123,128,
129
Rochester PMPC
Rochester, NY 14808-2312
130-132, 133-135, 138,
137-139,140-143,144148, 147, 148-149
DFCIUSPS-T34-1, page 1 of 2
RESPONSE OF UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE WITNESS ROBINSON
TO INTERROGATORIES OF DOUGLAS F. CARLSON
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Location
ZIP Codes Served
Pittsburgh PMPC
Warrendale, PA 15088-7531
150-152,153,154,158,
158,155.157,159, 180182, 183,184-185, 188,
188.187,250-253,280,
281,282-285,288.288
Philadelphia Metro
PMPC
Swedesbom. NJ 08085-1708
080-084,170-172,178,
173-178,189.177, 179,
180-181,183,184-185.
188,l82,l88-187.189,
193-194,190-192,195198, 197-199
Metro NY PMPC
Bethpage, NY 11714-3588
loo-102,104.110,113114.118,lll.
103, 112,
115.005,117-119
Nashua PMPC
10 Celina Avenue
Nashua, NH 03083-1015
014-017.018-019,055,
021-022,020-023-024,
025-028,027-029,030034,03&039,040043,045,048,044,048,
047,049.035037,050053.057-059,054,058
DFCIUSPS-T34-1, page 2 of 2
RESPONSE OF UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE WITNESS ROBINSON
TO INTERROGATORIES OF DOUGLAS F. CARLSON
DFCILISPS-T34-2. Please refer to footnote g in your testimony at page 18. Please
explain why the flat-rate envelope would be priced at the two-pound rate, even for a flatrate envelope that contained documents that weighed one pound or less.
RESPONSE:
The Priority Mail flat-rate envelope is a convenience product that allows
customers to prepare and mail a Priority Mail piece without determining the actual
weight and zone of the piece and the corresponding postage for that weight and zone.
Customers who are price sensitive and wish to use the one-pound rate for documents
weighing one pound or less may do so by using any appropriate packaging material
other than the flat-rate envelope.
In Docket No. RgO-1, the Postal Rate Commission recommended a rate for the
Priortty Mail flat-rate envelope stating ‘the addltional convenience tt provides will
enhance the value of the service to the customers, especially the small-volume and
household users. This is a proposal which simplifies customers’ transactions with the
Postal Service if they choose to take advantage of it.” [Docket No. RgO-1, PRC Op. at
V-98, para. 52211
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RESPONSE OF UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE WITNESS ROBINSON
TO INTERROGATORIES OF DOUGLAS F. CARLSON
DFCIUSPS-T34-3. Please provide all data concerning the actual weight of flat-rate
envelopes that customers mail under current postage rates.
RESPONSE:
The data below is from an RPW special weight report for GFY 1998. The data is
available in electronic format in USPS-LR-I-185, Priority Mail Pricing Spreadsheets,
USPST34Axls. worksheet ‘Input Data,’ cell range Al 18::El53.
Qunce Increment
0.001-1.000
1.001-2.000
2.001-3.000
3.Wl-4.000
4.001~5.000
5.001-5.wo
&WI-7.000
7.w1-6.ow
6.Wl-9.000
9.001-10.000
10.001-11.000
11.001-12.000
12.001-13.000
13.001-14.000
14.001-15.000
15.001-16.000
16.001-17.000
17.001.16.000
16.001-19.000
19.001-2o.wo
20.001-21.000
21.001-22.000
22.001.23.000
23.001-24.000
24.001.25.000
25.001.26.000
26.001.27.000
27.001-26.000
26.001-29.000
29.001-30.000
30.001-31.000
31.w1-32.wo
32.Wl"QQ999
Total
Fiat Rate EnveloDe VOlumg
3267.416
19;126;400
11,930.614
6.227.460
6.910.463
5.267363
4367,424
3.711.166
3.703.265
3.503.626
3,421.206
4,165.505
4.329.216
49252.744
3.233.363
2.690,377
3.010.064
2.652,609
2.261,426
1.790,650
1.660,130
1 A45.749
1,506.339
I .320,774
1.120.7W
970.750
641.025
846,470
712,902
696,426
565,522
566,692
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DECLARATION
I, Maura Robinson, declare under penalty of pejury that the foregoing answers
are true and correct, to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief.
M&RA
Dated:
Z-7-00
ROBINSON
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CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I hereby certify that I have this day served the foregoing document upon
all participants of record In this proceeding in accordance wlth section 12 of the
Rules of Practice.
475 L’Enfant Plaza West, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20280.1137
February 7, 2000